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Re:Rigetti Forest 1.0 – programming environment for quantum/... by obastani on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @04:54PM (#14598528)
Unlike adding RAM, adding each extra qubit is also exponentially harder, since maintaining coherence of all the qubits becomes more and more difficult. That's why scaling from the tiny quantum computers we have today (which are not useful) to a useful quantum computer remains a decades long research agenda.
Re:Rigetti Forest 1.0 – programming environment for quantum/... by YCode on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @05:10PM (#14598648)
You might take a look at this other reply:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14598516